Leveraging Mega-Event Legacies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367109271 ISBN 13: 9780367109271

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This is a multidisciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular. The volume is not specifically about mega-events or their management, but rather how such events act as a lens through which a number of important and critical questions about the decisions to host, the host nation, its society and the politics of culture, sport and leisure more broadly can be dealt with. In doing so this book seeks to build on, and out from initial work on (sports) mega-events by acknowledging the major shift towards ‘emerging’ states awarded such events since 2006 and incorporating the latest advances in research that have taken place in recent years. For example, debates about what constitutes a ‘mega-event’, what is meant by a ‘legacy’, what is ‘soft power’ and so on are dealt with from a team of leading academics from a variety of academic disciplines. This book was previously published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.

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About the Author

Jonathan Grix has published widely on sport politics and policy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics published by Routledge and the Director of the Sport Policy Centre in the University of Birmingham’s School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367109271
• ISBN 13: 9780367109271
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156
• Editor: Grix Jonathan